Climbing in Colorado
For the past two weeks I have been in Colorado. In Frisco the first week, my dad and I went climbing, biking, hiking, and rented a canoe and a jeep for a day. It was a blast and what made it even more exciting was that there was a BBQ festival on main in Frisco for three days. Last week some old friends from college and I did a lot of climbing. Sunday at The Monastery outside of Estes Park. It has difficult, exposed, and fun sport climbs. Monday, Dusty and I met these two older guys (40’s) at Vedawoo in Wyoming. We climbed 4 diverse climbs on rock that rivals the Needles and Joshua Tree. Tuesday morning another friend from school, Joe, met Kristy and I and we bouldered at Horsetooth Resavoir. And finally Thursday came. We awoke at 2 am, were at the trailhead in Rocky Mountain National Park at 4am, at the base of the Petit Grepon at 7am and then 8+ hours of exposed alpine climbing and rappelling ensued. About halfway up, we heard thunder, and blinded to the weather coming from the west, panic set in and we silently performed our tasks at hand. The summit is only about 3 feet by 20,we gladly found it at 1:15, 12,000 ft. some long scary rapps on the ice floss and were back at the car by 6pm. Thank you Ed’s Cantina for the most rewarding Nachos we had ever ground. Click the summit photo for more photos, below is a photo of the delicate climb as seen from the Gash: (Courtesy of Bryan Bornholdt), the climbers are setting the abseil, and us at the third rapp station(Below right).
